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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Active learning as a pedagogical strategy to enhance the learning of anthropology

Teaching Anthropology

Marilou Polymeropoulou, University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography Active learning is a well-established pedagogical strategy in secondary and tertiary education where independent learning and critical thinking are nurtured. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. References Bastide, H.

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Learning How to Wash Your Hands in Anthropology Class 

Teaching Anthropology

To his point, I find the current slew of handwashing videos on YouTube and other sites to be excellent resources for anthropology class projects, and utilize several in an activity that nurtures introductory students’ skills in critical thinking and observation. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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Other Anthropology Schools: Translating Disciplinary Treasures for “Undisciplined” Minds

Anthropology News

The courses covered many domains—design, medicine, the environment—but most featured an anthropological flair, and most of the organizers had an anthropology background. I titled my course—one of the four core courses—“Tears of the Earth: An Anthropological Thinking Experiment.”

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The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed Freire

TeachThought

For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. Yet only through communication can human life hold meaning.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

The point is that the connections between humanities and science have been lost in today’s separation of disciplines. Indeed, a recent report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences discovered that humanities and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) training majors largely dwell in different silos.

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“Living with Javelinas”: New Book Under Contract

Anthropology 365

Johnson, University of Texas at San Antonio As the human population continues to expand into what was once wilderness, people increasingly come in contact with wildlife. Living with Javelinas explores how humans and nonhumans can coexist in ways that respect the autonomy and agency of all beings involved.